Girls Locker Room. (Pop & girly posters – lots of leg & boob. Darla changing out of cheerleader outfit into camisole and ruffled underpants outside highly decorated pink girly locker. Enter Oscar.)
Oscar
Hello, babe.
Darla
(Starts to cover up, confused)
Honey! You can’t
Come in here!
(Looks around anxiously)
Oscar
(looming over her)
Got my bros at the door.
We’ve got nothing but privacy
I’ve got
(heavy emphasis)
Nothing but time.
You’re
Out of time.
Darla
(Struggling to be seductive in this incongruous setting)
Men like it in weird places
That’s what I hear.
(Touches him tentatively)
How can I please you?
(He pushes her down roughly on the bench)
Oscar
Tell me truth for once!
Darla
I never lied to you!
Oscar
(Wailing his woundedness)
Didn’t you send a
Strip pic
To everyone in school?
Insulting me?
Dissing me?
Smirching my honor?
Making them LAUGH?
Darla
Never! Girls don’t
Share pictures! It’s
Only for you!
Oscar
I can’t trust you
Anymore. You
Lie so so so –
Beautifully.
(so much pain)
Pretending to be a
Virgin! You
Fooled me! You
Fooled me!
Darla
You know I was a virgin –
You made me bleed! And were
YOU a virgin? What’s it matter
Anyway? As long as
We love each other.
Oscar
(He shows her the movie on his phone)
Who’s idea was this?
Think you’re a porn star?
What does that make me?
Some kind of toy boy?
Darla
Not me, I swear it!
Oscar
(Threateningly)
You’ll bleed
For real this time!
(Pulls out his knife)
It’s my right and my
Duty. God’s gift and
Man’s! Look at this here!
(He shows her his phone)
Does SHE look like a virgin?
Darla
(Throws herself on her knees, grabs his hand)
I didn’t know nothing – I was
Trying to love you
Best way I saw possible.
It seemed that you liked it!
Oscar
Men have regrets when
There’s honor involved.
Darla
They’re liars, Oscar!
They hate our
Perfection!
You can’t –
(He casts her from him)
Oscar
(Sneering)
Don’t tell me what I can or
Can’t do!
Think I listen to GIRLS?
You’re trappers, high-flyers –
I was warned about this school.
When there’s no prayer there’s
WHORES! I hoped
This place was different
But I see
It’s just a snake pit!
Darla
I thought you
Loved me!
Oscar
I thought I did –
And then I saw through
Your cruel cruel
Mask.
Darla
(Trying to rise to her feet to hug him)
Together
We can fight them
I swear, it’s just you and me
Adam and Eve
And it’s our brand new world.
Oscar
You want me WEAK
You wanted a slave out to
Stud, a trophy, a trinket
To make you look good.
Darla
(Outraged – hands on hips)
NONE of this is true
I gave myself to
YOU – to
To love – and to cherish
Not to hurt and to
KILL!
Oscar
(He backs away from her sudden power)
You’re trying to smoke me
Blinding me helpless
With your Vixen Stink.
Darla
(Pleading with him)
So?
I’ll change perfume
I’ll change anything
You find displeasing –
Tell me what to do.
Oscar
You enslaved me with
Your sex.
You knew how
To handle me –
Touched me like a
WHORE!
Darla
If you’ve been with whores
I know how to forgive –
I can forgive so much
You’d be surprised.
We’re together now –
I’ll do anything
You want –
Oscar
You knew too much
For a pure girl.
Darla
But I made you happy.
Oscar
Happy?
Do I look happy?
I can’t sleep
Can’t eat – I’m
Cuck’d! They all know it!
Laughter
Is everywhere
Their jeers are a torment!
(Clutches his head)
Oscar
Death’s the only answer
It’s fair and it’s just –
It’s mine to decide and I said
You must die.
Darla
If I’d hated your sex
Would this even be happening?
Oscar
Don’t confuse me –
With argument
The truth’s bad enough.
Darla
But I didn’t send that
Picture – Emily sent it, and
I never filmed anything
Or knew anyone would.
I still think we’re beautiful.
All I can say is
I never loved or
pleased anyone but you
And that made you hate me!
Oscar
What about Rocky?
What about Clint –
About Cody?
Your cousin?
Darla
(Dismissively)
Rocky’s a baby.
He doesn’t count.
Clint prefers boys and with Cody –
We were children.
My cousin’s like a brother!
Oscar
Excuses, excuses.
See this teardrop?
(Points to tattoo on his cheek)
This tear is for you
It’s for my first kill.
There’s no turning back.
Now it’s your time to
Pray.
Darla
Pray? To which of your
Gods? The mean one or
The forgiver? I pray
You don’t hurt me.
You know you once loved me.
Oscar
You BROKE my love.
(Waves the knife – then casts it aside)
No, I can’t! You’re too
Beautiful – I can’t
Tear that fresh, lovely, soft skin.
(Grabs her neck)
Oscar
I’ll throttle you –
Fast and safe –
You won’t feel a thing.
(She thrashes around – he stands foursquare, summons up his strength)
Just let go –
Give it up –
Some girls even like it
They ask for it specially.
(Emily appears behind him and brains him hard with a fire extinguisher –
Oscar goes down – Darla falls back choking, clutching her neck)
Emily
Take that, you
Bastard!
Darla
(Falling to her knees beside Oscar)
You’ve killed him!
(Oscar groans)
Darla
Call 911!
Help! Help!
(Victor and Rocky burst in)
Victor
What happened?
Emily
You know what happened,
You jackass:
He tried to kill her!
Darla
You didn’t need to hit him so hard!
(Oscar rolling and groaning)
Darla
You broke his brain!
Emily
His brain broke
Long ago.
Victor
That’s right –
Nothing I did –
This mofo’s plum crazy.
(Rocky picks up the knife and flicks it admiringly)
Rocky
Wow! Look
At the size of this thing!
Emily
Would someone please
Call 911?
(Still holding the fire extinguisher defensively – after all, Rocky has the knife)
Do I have to do
Everything around here?
Victor
(To his cell phone)
Hello
Coach? We’ve got
A problem.
Emily
(throws the fire extinguisher aside)
Give me that thing.
(She snatches the phone from him – punches 911 – acts frustrated)
Victor
No outside line.
Rocky
The school’s gonna
Hush this right up –
Victor
(Snatching back his phone)
We don’t need
Police.
(His phone rings – Victor says threateningly)
It’s Coach.
Do I tell him honestly
How Oscar got hurt?
Darla
I won’t speak
If you won’t.
Rocky
(Pockets knife)
No knife – no
Foul. Right?
Victor
(Answers phone)
I dunno, Coach – seems
Oscar was peepin’
In the girls’ locker room –
Things turned nasty and
Oscar got brained.
Darla
(Bravely)
Tell him I did it.
(She tries to link arms with Emily who throws her hands up in disgust)
Victor
(pretending to be brave)
I don’t want to say. You
Better come look.
Better see for yourself.
(He snaps phone into pocket)
You know it’s all
Emily’s fault.
(Emily aghast)
Emily
How’d you figure?
Victor
Hey, YOU sent that photo.
(Emily is speechless with rage. Darla is astounded)
Darla
Oh, no she din’t!
Emily
It was all your idea!
Victor
You shouldn’t listen to me!
People do what they want.
We’re all in this together.
Nobody speaks
There’ll be no harm done.
Coach don’t wanna know.
(Kneels by Oscar)
Victor
Hang in there big guy,
We’re getting you help.
(Curtain.)
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